On a late June day in 2020, the quiet of Happy Hollow Road in Cleveland, Georgia, was shattered by the sound of gunfire. When White County Sheriff's deputies arrived at the scene, they discovered the body of 41-year-old Mitchell Dale Smallwood, a white male, who had been fatally shot. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was called in to assist the local sheriff's office with the homicide case.
The investigation into Smallwood's death quickly led to an arrest. Rita Sanders-Luse, a 66-year-
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